28 Advanced Bee Culture 



they are almost certain to perish. The only remedy is to extract the 

 honey and feed sugar syrup, unless it might be that of brimstoning the 

 bees in the fall, and buying more in the spring from some other locality — 

 a course which has been followed successfully, as the long season for 

 preparation allows of the building-up of one colony into several. 



It would be an easy matter to use pages in giving illustrations of 

 the differences in localities, but it is unnecessary ; the thing for the bee- 

 keeper to remember is that, if he changes his locality, he must leave 

 behind him many of his old notions and methods, and seek the advice of 

 his new neighbors who have been successful. The veteran bee-keeper 

 from the verdant hills of old A'^rmont would make a flat failure were 

 he to bring his apiar\' to Colorado, and manage it the same as he has 

 been accustomed to do. A bee-keeper can not know his locality too 

 thoroughly. Some men succeed in localities where the majorit}' fail, 

 and one reason is because their more thorough knowledge of the localit^• 

 enables them to adopt methods more perfectly adapted to the peculiarities 

 of that location. Above all things, know your locality. 



